thanks for watching at 6:00, the news continue ♪ ♪ captioning sponsored by cbs >> garrett: tonight as the world rings in a new year america sees its deadliest day yet of coronavirus. new year's eve fireworks without revelers. cities worldwide celebrate under lockdown. tonight grim predictions for the first weeks of 2021. in california more than 25,000 total deaths. nurses say hospitals have become war zones. the l.a.p.d. putting a thousand officers on patrol tonight looking to break up large gatherings before they become superspreaders. vaccine delays. weeks into distribution, why have just a fraction of the expected shots been given? and tonight the f.b.i. is investigating a man who says he deliberately spoiled hundreds of doses of vaccine. we'll have the latest details.

also tonight republicans have to take sides in president trump's dead end efforts to overturn the election. and with just days to go before those key senate runoff races in georgia, one of the candidates is now in quarantine. tale of the tape, new video shows a woman attacking a black teenager, falsely accusing him of stealing her iphone. his family is demanding her arrest. what she is saying tonight and it's not an apology. new year's storm, millions are under weather alerts from texas to new york. we'll have the latest. history on the hardwood. the extraordinary moment when becky hammon became the first woman to serve as an n.b.a. head coach. and this isn't kid stuff. meet the eight year old entrepreneur who's matching style with purpose. >> this is the cbs evening news with norah o'donnell. reporting from the nation's capitol. >> garrett: good evening to our

viewers in the west. norah is off tonight. i'm major garrett. we begin this new year's eve with subdued celebrations as well as a longing to put a painful year behind us even as we burnish hopes for better days ahead. but we know this is true: 2021 will begin the way 2020 is ending with suffering and a twinge of uncertainty. as we come on the year tonight covid which emerged on the world's radar just about a year ago has killed more than 344,000 americans. records, whether we want them to or not, continue to fall, as more than 3,700 deaths were recorded in the united states in each of the past two days. and more than 125,000 americans will begin this new year in hospitals. tonight time square, as is the custom, will once again be the centerpiece of our national celebration. the ball will drop, but few will see it in person. you see police are keeping the crowds away to prevent the spread of the virus. and in los angeles, police are out in force to crack down on parties.

california remains the pandemic's epicenter with hospitals there simply overwhelmed. help in the form of a vaccine appears slow in coming. tonight the c.d.c. says fewer than 3 million americans will have received that first dose. far short of the trump administration's projection of 20 million doses by the end of this year. there is a lot of new reporting for you and your family tonight. our team is following every angle. cbs' nikki battiste leads off our coverage from new york city's time square. nikki, good evening. >> reporter: major, about a million people normally fill these time square streets behind me to ring in the new year. but this year, as you can see, they are closed to the public. the n.y.p.d. says anyone who tries to gather here tonight will be asked to move along, except for 40 front line workers who were invited to watch the crystal ball drop. this empty new year's eve epicenter is a familiar scene around the world tonight. in england the prime minister ordered people to stay home.

and despite a fireworks display in sydney, the harbor below was a ghost town as the clock ticked midnight. but in wuhan, china, thousands rang in 2021 wearing masks. in wisconsin tonight a hospital pharmacist was arrested for intentionally destroying more than 500 doses of the covid vaccine. police say he left the vials out of refrigeration overnight knowing they would be useless. >> we're really not able to make any judgments on motive at this time. >> reporter: as the u.s. counts down to 2021, the c.d.c. is projecting 80,000 americans will die in the next three weeks from covid-19. >> you just really appreciate the time you have with the people that you love. >> reporter: pamela addison's 44 year old husband martin, a hospital speech pathologist and father to their two year old daughter and baby boy was among the nearly 343,000 americans who have died from covid-19. pamela is now part of a group of

about 80 women and men who also lost their spouses and partners to the coronavirus. is there any one thing that any of them said to you that has really resonated with you? >> when they say i'm so thankful that i found this group, because you truly understand, i think that is what is so meaningful to me. >> reporter: a nurse held martin's hand in the hospital during what would be his final facetime call with pamela. >> it happened to be the anniversary of when he asked me to marry him. i just reminisced about that day and how i would say yes all over again, and that i loved him, and even though he was heavily sedated, he squeezed her hand and tried to open his eyes. and two days later he died. >> reporter: pamela addison told me her husband always said tomorrow is not promised. mayor bill de blasio announced today that new york city will hold a day of remembrance on march 14, 2021-- one year after the first covid-19 death here.

major? >> garrett: much to remember, nikki battiste, thank you so much. today california became the third state to surpass 25,000 covid deaths following new york and texas. in los angeles county many funeral homes are filled to capacity. and healthcare professionals feel they are under siege. here is cbs' carter evans. >> reporter: hospitals in southern california are at the breaking point with one in five covid tests coming back positive. >> it is just utter chaos. >> reporter: nurse tavonia ekwegh runs the e.r. at anaheim global medical center where even the outdoor tents are filling up. >> it is a war zone, where we have ambulance run after ambulance run. >> reporter: and hospitalizations are on track to double in january. how can l.a. hospitals handle twice as many patients? >> the simple answer is we can't. >> reporter: los angeles mayor eric garcetti put it in blunt terms. >> people will die in the

hallways of our hospitals. our behavior will dictate whether people will live or die as much as any actions the hospital takes. >> reporter: tonight he is setting up extra patrols to shut down new year's eve parties. how many officers will you have on the streets breaking up parts? >> probably over a thousand officers out in force during new year's eve. >> reporter: what is your message to those people in this absolute time of crisis? >> be lifesavers, don't be killers. when 95% of people are doing the right thing it is still dangerous, let alone when 80% of people are doing the right thing, and it is disastrous. >> reporter: and for garcetti, the pandemic is now personal. >> our own daughter, she went on a fast food run and one shopping run. she got a positive covid-19 test. and she did everything right, and still it came to our house. >> reporter: carter evans, cbs news, los angeles. >> garrett: tonight president trump is back in washington returning home a day early from his mar-a-lago resort. his return comes as republican

leaders resist his demand for bigger stimulus checks while allies plan one last long, long shot to challenge the president's election defeat. here is cbs' weijia jiang. >> reporter: president trump ignored questions as he returned to the white house. minutes later he posted a video on twitter touting operation "warp speed." >> they will be talking about this great, great thing that we did with the vaccines. >> reporter: but the president did not address how slow the rollout is. the administration aimed to vaccinate 20 million people by today, but fewer than 3 million americans have received a shot. the white house announced mr. trump was cutting his vacation short, soon after senator josh hawley revealed he plans to vote against the certification of president-elect joe biden's victory. >> this is my opportunity to stand up and say something. >> reporter: fellow republican senator ben sasse called attempts to change the election

results "a dangerous ploy." another fight is brewing in the senate over bigger stimulus checks. >> socialism for rich people is a terrible way to help the american families that are actually struggling. >> reporter: senate majority leader mitch mcconnell has tied a vote on increasing the payments to two unrelated issues: repealing projection for internet companies and election fraud. >> just give us a vote on the house-passed bill and we can vote on whatever right wing conspiracy theory you would like. >> reporter: in georgia, voters lined up for hours to cast early ballots in the upcoming runoff elections for two senate seats that will determine control of the chamber. tonight georgia republican senator david perdue who is fighting to keep his seat is in quarantine after coming into close contact with someone on his campaign who tested positive for covid-19. on monday president-elect joe biden and president trump plan to be in georgia on the eve of

the elections, a state mr. trump lost. major? >> garrett: weijia jiang, thank you. tonight we are getting a look at some new video of a confrontation in a new york hotel. a young woman there falsely accused a black teenager of stealing her iphone. we are also hearing from her for the very first time. here is cbs' jamie yuccas. >> reporter: the newly released video shows the woman tackling 14-year-old keyon harrold, jr. in the hotel lobby. >> reporter: but that day after christmas accusation was false. she actually left it in an uber. the driver returned it a short time later. >> reporter: grammy-winning musician keyon harrold filmed the incident as he tried to protect his son all playing out in the new york hotel where he and his son were guests. >> we literally were coming downstairs to have brunch. >> reporter: cnn says the woman claims she was attacked and

hasn't apologized for the false claim. the family wants her charged with assault. >> no 14-year-old boy should be scared and threatened. they shouldn't have to feel scared or feel like they are threatening anybody. >> reporter: jamie yuccas, cbs news, new york. >> garrett: a major storm is bringing snow and ice to the midwest and into new england this holiday weekend. parts of west texas have already gotten several inches of snow causing a significant pileup on i-20. some drivers there were stranded for hours. cbs' lonnie quinn joins us now, this looks like a potent storm. where is it heading next? >> okay, especially when you consider some of the festivities going on tonight. i realize no big crowds are gathering but weather willbe an issue. that is what we are dealing with. the first thing your eye will focus on, you are talking about the snow in texas, portions of texas has picked up a foot of snow but this red outline in louisiana is a tornado watch for about the next three hours or

so. so it could get very volatile weather-wise when we push into new year's eve. so where does it go from here? the future cast, the computer models are showing us by tomorrow morning you've got snow falling, in the chicago area, up towards detroit, but south of that, st. louis an icy mix, rain for everybody else, but by friday 8:00 p.m., now looking at icing in portions of pennsylvania into new york, and mostly rain for the east coast cities. in terms of overnight lows as you are bringing in the new year. record warmth for places like savannah, daytona, florida, temperatures not below the lower or mid '60s. north of that temperatures in the 30s, and that is where they should be for this time of year. major. >> garrett: lonnie quinn, thank you so much. there is still much more news ahead on tonight's cbs evening news. new video sparks new questions in a deadly police shooting. why did police wait to help the unarmed victim as he lay dying. and history is made as a woman fills in as a head coach of an n.b.a. team. is that ireland...1953?

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